{"id":33650,"date":"2021-07-13T10:43:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T15:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33650"},"modified":"2021-07-13T10:43:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T15:43:35","slug":"word-of-the-day-708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/07\/13\/word-of-the-day-708\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phalanx<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The\u00a0phalanx<\/b>\u00a0(Ancient Greek<\/a>:\u00a0\u03c6\u03ac\u03bb\u03b1\u03b3\u03be<\/span>; plural\u00a0phalanxes<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0phalanges<\/b>,\u00a0\u03c6\u03ac\u03bb\u03b1\u03b3\u03b3\u03b5\u03c2<\/span>,\u00a0phalanges<\/i>) was a\u00a0rectangular<\/a>\u00a0mass military\u00a0formation<\/a>, usually composed entirely of\u00a0heavy infantry<\/a>\u00a0armed with\u00a0spears<\/a>,\u00a0pikes<\/a>,\u00a0sarissas<\/a>, or similar\u00a0pole weapons<\/a>. The term is particularly used to describe the use of this formation in\u00a0Ancient Greek<\/a>\u00a0warfare<\/a>, although the ancient Greek writers used it to also describe any massed infantry formation, regardless of its equipment.\u00a0Arrian<\/a>\u00a0uses the term in his\u00a0Array against the Alans<\/i>\u00a0when he refers to his legions. In Greek texts, the phalanx may be deployed for battle, on the march, or even camped, thus describing the mass of infantry or cavalry that would deploy in line during battle. They marched forward as one entity. [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “7 points Biden needs to make about voting rights<\/em><\/a>,” Jennifer Rubin, WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

Sixth, Biden should announce that in 2022 and 2024, the Justice Department will deploy a phalanx of voting monitors to prevent intimidation and attempts to falsify or overturn legitimate election results. It was a mistake for federal prosecutors not to investigate the efforts of Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) to pressure Georgia election officials to throw out ballots and former president Donald Trump\u2019s efforts to demand they \u201cfind\u201d new ballots. While Biden has pledged not to direct the Justice Department to undertake specific actions, he can publicly call for Congress and the department to clarify the law as needed and prevent such behavior in the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A popular metaphor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phalanx: The\u00a0phalanx\u00a0(Ancient Greek:\u00a0\u03c6\u03ac\u03bb\u03b1\u03b3\u03be; plural\u00a0phalanxes\u00a0or\u00a0phalanges,\u00a0\u03c6\u03ac\u03bb\u03b1\u03b3\u03b3\u03b5\u03c2,\u00a0phalanges) was a\u00a0rectangular\u00a0mass military\u00a0formation, usually composed entirely of\u00a0heavy infantry\u00a0armed with\u00a0spears,\u00a0pikes,\u00a0sarissas, or similar\u00a0pole weapons. The term is particularly used to describe the use of this formation in\u00a0Ancient Greek\u00a0warfare, although the ancient Greek writers used it to also describe any massed infantry formation, regardless of its equipment.\u00a0Arrian\u00a0uses the term \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33651,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33650\/revisions\/33651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}